I am so excited about this! Ever since I started designing and selling sewing patterns I've been so pleased with how well my business fits into my health needs. When I have a good day, I work on patterns. When I experience a flare (aka get crazy sick), I can curl up in bed while my patterns sell themselves online. (hooray for automated PDF sales!) I am just so pleased to have found a way to ... View Post
Learn to Read a Sewing Pattern
People are always asking me how hard my patterns are to make. The majority of them are quite simple. I usually tell people that if they've ever followed a sewing pattern before, they should be just fine. The responses I get are interesting, but what I find even more fascinating is how easily the responses can be categorized. People about age 45 and up typically nod their heads and feel ... View Post
Free 5 1/2 Inch Square Quilting Ruler Printable
Another month brings a new block of the month assignment! Which, of course, means I've spent the morning making my own printable quilting ruler so I wouldn't have to buy the one required for this month's blocks. This month we were cutting down a circle into an octagon using a 5 1/2" ruler- a perfect job for a paper substitute if you ask me! Click here to download your own five and a half inch ... View Post
Independent Pattern Companies vs the Big Four
Ok, I fully admit that I might appear to have a pretty biased opinion on this topic, seeing as how I run my own independent pattern company. But the truth is, I'm neither for or against either type of pattern. I have, however, spent the past few years getting myself very familiar with the world of sewing pattern publishing and have found some very interesting pros and cons to both ... View Post
Pattern Review: Oatmeal the Snowman Knitting Pattern
Every January I get a crazy POTS flair. Every year I know it's because I did too much in December, causing my body to retaliate by forcing me to stay in bed for weeks afterwards. And every year as soon as December rolls around, I do it all over again. The holidays are just hard tone down! Especially when you have to tone it down to chronic illness levels (aka: basically never doing ... View Post
The First 4 Things to Try When Your Sewing Machine Acts Out
I learned how to sew when I was young. I'm still surprised that my mom trusted me enough to let me sew on her super nice machine. Inevitably something would go wrong (I mean, I was 8 years old. Of course something was going to go wrong!). I'd sew a seam only to find a mess of thread underneath or the machine would stop sewing even stitches (or a hundred other things). I'd run upstairs and ... View Post
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